The Bottleneck That Saved a Species: How These Koalas Survived the Unthinkable

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️Available for Broadcast: https://exchange.prx.org/group_accounts/253118-heliox_where_evidence_meets_empathy 📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd5BbCEeC3Z6dp-nNjWRbBw What if near-extinction is sometimes a gift? A landmark study in the journal Science — drawing on 418 whole koala genomes across 27 populations in three Australian states — has just overturned one of conservation biology's foundational assumptions. And ...